Digger or diggers may refer to: *

Excavator Excavators are heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, dipper (or stick), bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house". The house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels. They are a natural progression fr ...

, heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, dipper, bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house". * Backhoe loaders and

backhoes A backhoe—also called rear actor or back actor—is a type of excavating equipment, or digger, consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm. It is typically mounted on the back of a tractor or front loader, the lat ...

are often known as diggers or mini diggers in

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English ...

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Places

Digger, Leh Digger is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India. It is located in the Nubra tehsil. Demographics According to the 2011 census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing ...

, a village in India

People

labourer A laborer (or labourer) is a person who works in manual labor types in the construction industry workforce. Laborers are in a working class of wage-earners in which their only possession of significant material value is their labor. Industries e ...

Digger (nickname) Digger is a nickname for: * John Barnes (born 1963), Jamaican-born English former footballer and manager * Arthur Brown (1859–1909), English footballer * Duane G. Carey (born 1957), former NASA astronaut and retired US Air Force lieutenant colo ...

Digger (soldier) Digger is a military slang term for primarily infantry soldiers from Australia and New Zealand. Evidence of its use has been found in those countries as early as the 1850s, but its current usage in a military context did not become prominent unt ...

, Australian and New Zealand slang for a veteran *

Digger Indians The Southern Paiute people are a tribe of Native Americans who have lived in the Colorado River basin of southern Nevada, northern Arizona, and southern Utah. Bands of Southern Paiute live in scattered locations throughout this territory an ...

, ethnic slur for Native Americans in California * Digger, person who frequently submits or reads stories on

Digg Digg, stylized in lowercase as digg, is an American news aggregator with a curated front page, aiming to select stories specifically for the Internet audience such as science, trending political issues, and viral Internet issues. It was launche ...

, a technology news website

Fictional characters

Digger (mascot) London Irish RFC is a professional rugby union club which competes in the Premiership, the top division of English rugby union. The club has also competed in the Anglo-Welsh Cup, the European Champions Cup and European Challenge Cup. Whil ...

, mascot of the London Irish rugby football club * Diggers, characters in the video game ''

Mega Man Legends ''Mega Man Legends'' is a series in the ''Mega Man'' franchise. While the classic series is known for its 2D side-scrolling platformer gameplay with very little story, this series instead features 3D action-adventure gameplay and a robust story ...

'' *

Digger (Marvel Comics) Digger (Roderick Krupp) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared as a story narrator/host in the Horror fiction, horror anthology series ''Tower of Shadows'' #1 (September 1969), i ...

, a comic book character owned by Marvel Comics *

Willard "Digger" Barnes Willard "Digger" Barnes is a fictional character in the popular American television series ''Dallas'' created by David Jacobs. Digger was played by actors David Wayne and Keenan Wynn in the show's first three seasons from 1978 to 1980, and as a y ...

, in the American television series ''Dallas'' * ''Digger'' (NASCAR), the mascot for the ''NASCAR on Fox'' "gopher cam", from ''

The Adventures of Digger and Friends The Adventures of Digger and Friends was a series of vignettes that showed during NASCAR on Fox pre-race shows in 2009; notably, the character of Digger would also make a brief cameo in that year's film '' Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel' ...

'' * Digger, a character in Kathryn Lasky's book series ''

Guardians of Ga'Hoole ''Guardians of Ga'Hoole'' is a fantasy book series written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic. The series contains a total of 16 books and although originally intended to conclude with the 2008 publication of ''The War of the Ember' ...

'' * Digger Mole, a character from ''

Shirt Tales ''Shirt Tales'' are characters that were created in 1980 by greeting card designer Janet Elizabeth Manco and were featured on Hallmark Cards greeting cards. The characters were adapted into a 1982-1985 animated series for television, by Hanna-Bar ...

'' * George "Digger" Harkness, the first

Captain Boomerang Captain Boomerang is the name of two supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, who respectively serve as enemies to both the Barry Allen and Wally West versions of the Flash. Created by writer John Broome and artis ...

DC Comics villain * Digby "Digger" O'Dell, on the American radio and television shows ''

Life of Riley "The life of Felina" is an expression meaning an easy, carefree life. Life of Riley may refer to: Art and entertainment Music Albums * '' Life of Riley: The Lightning Seeds Collection'', a 2003 compilation album by British band The Lightning ...

'' and the 1949 film

Arts and entertainment

Literature

* ''Digger'' (webcomic), a webcomic by Ursula Vernon * ''

The Digger ''The Digger'' is a 24-page magazine in Glasgow, Scotland which focusses on crime stories. It is published weekly, in an A5 newsletter format. In 2012, the magazine went from newsprint to glossy. Background The magazine was founded by James C ...

'', a Scottish weekly magazine * ''The Digger'' (alternative magazine), a 1970s Australian magazine * ''Diggers'' (1990), the second book in ''

The Nome Trilogy ''The Nome Trilogy'', also known as ''The Bromeliad Trilogy'' or just ''The Bromeliad'', is a trilogy of children's books by British writer Terry Pratchett, consisting of the books ''Truckers'' (1989), ''Diggers'' (1990) and ''Wings'' (1990) ...

'' by Terry Pratchett

Film

* ''Diggers'' (1931 film), an Australian film directed by F. W. Thring * ''Digger'' (1993 film), a Canadian film starring Leslie Nielsen * ''Diggers'' (2006 film), an American film starring Paul Rudd and Lauren Ambrose * ''Digger'' (2020 film), a Greek film

Television

* "Digger" (''Bottom''), a 1992 episode from the British television sitcom ''Bottom'' * ''Diggers'' (TV series), a reality television show on the National Geographic Channel

Music

Digger (band) Digger is an American pop punk band from Pennsylvania, signed to Hopeless Records. History Digger formed in the Lehigh Valley in the mid-1990s and signed to Hopeless Records in 1996. Upon the event of Digger's live recording being played on ...

, a punk band *

The Diggers (band) The Diggers are a Scottish post-Britpop powerpop band, with a 1997 debut album, ''Mount Everest''. History Members Miezitis and Moffatt had attended school together and began playing as an acoustic duo in the early 1990s. In 1991 they moved ...

, a Scottish band

Video games

* ''

Heiankyo Alien , known as ''Digger'' in North America, is a maze video game created by the University of Tokyo's Theoretical Science Group (TSG) in 1979.Translation The game was originally developed and released as a personal computer game in 1979, and was then ...

'', a 1979 video game released as ''Digger'' in North America * ''Digger'' (video game), a computer game from 1983 * ''Diggers'' (video game), launch title for the Amiga CD32 videogaming console * Digger, one of the eight tools available in the video game ''

Lemmings A lemming is a small rodent, usually found in or near the Arctic in tundra biomes. Lemmings form the subfamily Arvicolinae (also known as Microtinae) together with voles and muskrats, which form part of the superfamily Muroidea, which also includ ...

Organizations

Diggers The Diggers were a group of religious and political dissidents in England, associated with agrarian socialism. Gerrard Winstanley and William Everard, amongst many others, were known as True Levellers in 1649, in reference to their split from ...

, a group of radicals during the English Civil War *

Diggers (theater) The Diggers were a radical community-action group of activists and Street Theatre actors operating from 1966 to 1968, based in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Their politics have been categorized as "left-wing"; more accurately, ...

, a 1960s collective of the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco, US *

Bendigo Diggers The Bendigo Gold Football Club was an Australian rules football club based in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. The club played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1998 until 2014, under the nicknames Diggers, Bombers and Gold at different ...

, former name of Bendigo Football Club, an Australian rules football club

Other uses

Digger wasp (disambiguation) The common name digger wasp is a broad term which may refer to any member of the parasitoidal wasp families: * Crabronidae, including ''Bembix'' sand wasps and ''Philanthus'' beewolves * Sphecidae The Sphecidae are a cosmopolitan family of wa ...

, multiple wasp families * Digger, style of motorcycle, similar to a chopper * A nickname for a

front engine dragster The front-engine dragster is a type of racing car purposely built for drag racing. Commonly known as a "rail", "digger", or "slingshot", it is now considered obsolete, and is used only in nostalgia drag racing. Wheelbases ranged from . Histor ...

* ''The Diggers'' (Van Gogh), 1889 painting by Vincent van Gogh